AHJ_ah02642 Inventory of the James H. Knights papers, 1912-1965 Knights (James H.) papers Processed by Kathryn Brooks The creation of the EAD-version of this finding aid has been made possible through a grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission. University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

American Heritage Center Dept. 3924, 1000 E. University Avenue University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Phone: 307.766.2574 Fax:307.766.5511 Email:ahcref@uwyo.edu URL:http://ahc.uwyo.edu/

2012

University of Wyoming

Finding aid encoded by Kathryn Brooks February 2012 Finding aid is in English Collection Summary Knights, James H., 1906-1999 James H. Knights papers 1912-1965 02642 12.01 cubic ft. (26 boxes) University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center. English Contains the papers of James H. Knights, an engineer for the Bureau of Reclamation who worked on the plans for the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Biography of James H. Knights

James H. Knights, born in 1906 in Chicago, Illinois, spent over thirty years with the United States Bureau of Reclamation as a civil engineer. Knights graduated in 1929 from the University of Wyoming with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and worked on several highway and bridge construction projects from 1929-1933. Knights worked for the Bureau of Reclamation from 1933 until 1964, where he was involved in the planning, design and construction of several Bureau projects in the western United States, including the Blue-South Platte River Project, the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, and the Shoshone Project in Wyoming. He was also employed in facilities planning for the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in northern Wyoming. Knights additionally served as an irrigation consultant in Peru in 1961 and Brazil in 1963. He died in 1999 in Englewood, Colorado at the age of 93.

Scope and Content

Collection contains materials related to Knights's involvement in Bureau of Reclamation construction projects. Collection includes planning reports and specifications of several projects, most notably the Blue-South Platte River Project, the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, and the Shoshone Project's Heart Mountain Division; as well as maps and diagrams of the Heart Mountain Division and Heart Mountain Relocation Center; and his undergraduate work from the University of Wyoming. Also included are Knights's diaries from 1942-1948.

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by James H. Knights at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

This material was received from James H. Knights in 1968.

Processing Information

The collection was processed by Kathryn Brooks in February 2012.

Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Access Terms United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Colorado-Big Thompson Project (U.S.) Shoshone Project. Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) Water resources development -- West (U.S.) Water resources development -- Wyoming. Water resources development -- Colorado. Diaries. Science, Technology and Health Technology Agriculture and Natural Resources Water and Water Rights Politics, Government, and Law Wyoming Container List Series I. Career & personal 1 Blue River-South Platte Project notebook 1947-1959 1 Blue-South Platte Project 1948 June 3 Chutes circa 1934 1 Colorado River Flows undated 1 Colorado-Big Thompson Official Cost Estimate 1954 July 15 1 Colorado-Big Thompson Project 1950-1953 7 Definite Plan Report - Narrows Unit - Colorado - South Platte Division, South Platte River Basin, Missouri River Basin Project, Vol. I - Narrows Dam & Reservoir 1951 June 1 Design of O. G. Type Diversion Dam 1929 June 2 Diaries 1942-1948 2 Field notes circa 1925-1927 2 Handwritten notebook 1931 7 Memorandum to Chief Designing Engineer - Subject: Effect of Change in Young's Modulus on Working Stresses in Reinforced Concrete 1935 January 9 3 Miscellaneous designs 1925-1951 7 Miscellaneous designs circa 1929 7 Miscellaneous pamphlets 1946-1958 8 Notebook/Binder - engineering notes 1920-1935 3 Personal 1924-1965 23 Poster - "1797-'Old Ironsides' U.S. Frigate Constitution-1927" by Gordon Grant 1927 8 Report of Inspection Trip 1929 3 Siphons circa 1934-1939 8 Sunshine Reservoir Dam - drawings & notes 1938 3 Travel 1959-1965 3 Tunnels 1933-1936 2 Undergraduate assignments circa 1927-1928 Series II. Specifications 18 115-Kilovolt Transmission Line from Greeley-Fort Morgan Transmission Line to Prospect Valley Substation 1944 12 115-Kilovolt Transmission Lines Granby Pumping Plant to Estes Power Plant & Mary's Lake Power Plant to Estes Power Plant 1949 18 96-inch Butterfly Valve Operating Mechanism Control System Conduit Sections & Portal Sleeve for Carter Lake Pressure Tunnel Estes Park-Foothills Power Aqueduct 1948-1951 14 Bald Mountain Pressure Tunnel & Access Roads Estes Park-Foothills Power Aqueduct 1950 11 Brush-Sterling 115-Kilovolt & Sterling-Holyoke 69-Kilovolt Transmission Lines 1947 16 Carter Lake Pressure Conduit Estes Park-Foothills Power Aqueduct 1951 13 Carter Lake Reservoir 1950 11 Cast-Iron Gates & Hoists for River & Laboratory Outlets & Fixed-Wheel Gate Hoists for Canal Intake Structure at Olympus Dam 1948 9 Columbia River Highway Bridge at Grand Coulee Dam 1934 16 Completion of Pole Hill Power Plant & Switchyard & Flatiron Power & Pumping Plant & Switchyard - Estes Park-Foothills Power Aqueduct 1952 17 Completion of Pole Hill Power Plant & Switchyard & Flatiron Power & Pumping Plant & Switchyard - Estes Park-Foothills Power Aqueduct 1952 15 Concrete Penstocks & Penstock Structures for Pole Hill Power Plant & Flatiron Power & Pumping Plant & Concrete Conduit for Carter Lake Pressure Conduit Estes Park-Foothills Power Aqueduct 1951 18 Dikes Nos. 1, 2, 3, & 4 Granby Dam 1938-1942 18 Earthwork & Bridges Grand Lake-Shadow Mountain Lake Connecting Channel 1944 18 Earthwork & Structures Boulder Creek Supply Canal Station 664+38.5 to Station 862+86 1952-1954 17 Earthwork & Structures Boulder Creek Supply Canal Station SV 518+12.47 to Station 664+38.5 1953 11 Earthwork & Structures for Aspen Creek Siphon Mary's Lake Power Plant, Penstock, Spillway, & Switchyard; Mary's Lake Reservoir Dikes & Road Relocation; Prospect Mountain Conduit; & Estes Power Plant, Penstock, & Switchyard 1947 18 Earthwork & Structures for South Platte Supply Canal South Platte Section Station 1727+00 to Station 1795+00 1952-1955 10 Earthwork & Structures Laterals H-89, H-103, & H-105 & Sublaterals 1940 9 Earthwork & Structures Pilot Canal, Station 1570 to Station 1841 Pilot Canal Laterals 31.0 to 34.9 & Sublaterals 1938 9 Earthwork & Structures South Canal Station 736 to Station 1340 & South Canal Lateral 17.7 1935 9 Earthwork, Bench Flume, & Structures Black Canyon Canal Station 0 to Station 157 1936 9 Earthwork, Bench Flume, Canal Lining, & Structures Yakima Ridge Canal Station 102 to Station 197+77.68 1936 16 Earthwork, Canal Lining, & Structures Station 471+89.58 to Station 497+61.91 Pole Hill Canal Estes Park-Foothills Power Aqueduct 1951 14 Earthwork, Concrete Canal Lining, & Structures; Poudre Supply Canal, Windsor Section 1950 12 Earthwork, Concrete Lining, and Structures Station 574+15.97 to Station 1410+00 East Low Canal & Station 0+00 to Station 348+12 Rocky Coulee Wasteway 1949 12 Earthwork, Structures, & Surfacing & Construction of Lind Coulee Bridge; Relocation of County Roads; Vicinity O'Sullivan Dam 1949 17 Earthwork, Structures, & Surfacing; Pole Hill Access Road; Flatiron Section; Estes Park-Foothills Power Aqueduct 1953 12 Earthwork, Tunnel, Structures, & Surfacing Shoshone Power Plant Access Road Station 0+00 to Station 13+74.73 1949 9 Earthwork, Tunnels, Canal Lining, & Structures Black Canyon Canal Station 606+70 to Station 643+40 & Station 719+70 to Station 742+45 1936 12 Flatiron-Greeley 115-Kilovolt Transmission Line 1949 13 Generator for Flat Iron Power Plant 1950 10 Granby Dam & Dikes 1941 10 Granby Dam & Dikes 1946 11 Granby Pumping Plant & Granby Pump Canal 1947 14 Grouting Temporary Outlets, Spring Canyon, & Dixon Canyon Dams 1950 14 High-Pressure Gates for Outlet Works at Willow Creek Dam 1936-1950 10 Horsetooth Reservoir 1946 18 Increasing Canal Lining Freeboard & Constructing Overflow Section for Pole Hill Canal, Station 477+16.2 to Station 497+96.91 1951-1954 14 North Poudre Supply Canal Diversion Dam & North Poudre Supply Canal Station 6+60 to Station 678+55.2 1951 9 Ogden-Brigham Tunnel & Ogden Canyon Tunnel 1935 11 Olympus Dam 1947 18 Outlet Gates for Carter Lake Reservoir 1950 17 Parshall Flume & Inlet for Aspen Creek Siphon Power Canal No. 1 1952 13 Pole Hill Power Plant & Access Road Estes Park-Foothills Power Aqueduct 1950 12 Pumping Units for Well Sump Pumping Plants Colorado River Improvements, Kremmling Area (2) 1949 18 Radial Gate Hoists for Willow Creek Dam 1946-1951 18 Radial Gates & Radial-Gate Hoists for Flatiron Afterbay Dam 1939-1951 14 Radial Gates & Radial-Gate Hoists for Willow Creek Dam 1951 16 Rattlesnake Dam 1951 13 Rattlesnake Tunnel; Estes Park-Foothills Power Aqueduct 1950 10 Shadow Mountain Dam & Dikes 1943 10 Shoshone Canyon Conduit Controlling Works & Tunnels Shoshone Canyon Conduit Station 0+00 to Station 8+50 1939 9 Shoshone Canyon Conduit Controlling Works & Tunnels Shoshone Canyon Conduit Station 0+00 to Station 8+50 1938 18 South Platte Supply Canal Rehabilitation & Enlargement Erie Section Station 10+30 to Station 315+00 (2) 1954 16 St. Vrain Supply Canal Station 10+90.56 to Station 520+75 1952 18 St. Vrain Supply Canal Station 236+80 to Station 244+18.0AH 1951-1953 11 Steel Discharge Pipes for Granby Pumping Plant 1948 11 Streets, Sidewalks, Curbs, & Gutters; & Drainage, Sewerage, & Water-Distribution Systems for Hungry Horse Government Camp 1946 11 Structural Steel & Cables for Blue River Suspension Bridge Loback Ditch Green Mountain Dam 1946 12 Superstructures for Bridges; Relocation of Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad; Trenton Dam 1950 14 System Dispatchers' Building at Flatiron 1950 11 Transformers for Pasco 115-KV Substation 1947 10 Transformers, Lightning-Arresters, Voltage Regulators, Power Circuit-Breakers, Switching Equipment, Metering, & Relay Equipment for Sterling & Holyoke Substations 1946 18 Trashracks for Outlet Works Intake Structure at Willow Creek Dam 1951 9 Tunnels Nos. 1, 2, & 3 Shoshone Canyon Conduit 1935 9 Tunnels Nos. 1, 2, & 3 Yakima Ridge Canal 1935 9 Tunnels Nos. 1, 2, 3, & 4 Black Canyon Canal 1935 9 Tunnels Nos. 3, 4, 5, & 6 Casper Canal 1935 18 Unit Substation & Power Distribution Board for Willow Creek Pumping Plant 1951 15 Willow Creek Dam 1951 15 Willow Creek Pumping Plant & Willow Creek Pump Canal 1951 Series III. Heart Mountain materials 4 Completion Report: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Cody, Wyoming, Built for the War Relocation Authority Under the Supervision of War Department, U.S. Engineer Office, Fort Peck, Montana 1938-1942 10 Earthwork & Structures Laterals H-16 to H-79 & Sublaterals & Check, Heart Mountain Canal, Station 583+50 1939 9 Earthwork, Canal Lining, & Structures Heart Mountain Canal, Station 303+30 to Station 322+30 & Station 340 to Station 712 1937 9 Earthwork, Canal Lining, & Structures Heart Mountain Canal, Station 712 to Station 920 1938 9 Earthwork, Canal Lining, & Structures Station 27 to Station 340 Heart Mountain Canal 1921-1936 9 Earthwork, Tunnel, & Canal Lining Heart Mountain Canal Station 15+90.7 to Station 27+00 1938 3 Heart Mountain correspondence 1942-1943 4 Heart Mountain Division - Shoshone Project - Project History, Vol. II - Year 1937 1937 5 Heart Mountain Division - Shoshone Project - Project History, Vol. III - Year 1938 1938-1939 5 Heart Mountain Division - Shoshone Project - Project History, Vol. IV - Year 1939 1929-1939 6 Heart Mountain Division - Shoshone Project - Project History, Vol. V - Year 1940 1934-1940 6 Heart Mountain Division - Shoshone Project - Project History, Vol. VI - Year 1941 1934-1941 4 Heart Mountain Division - Shoshone Project Wyoming - Project History, Vol. I - Year 1936 1924-1936 25 Heart Mountain Relocation Center - technical drawings for evacuee buildings & related 1942 26 Heart Mountain Relocation Center technical drawings 1942 8 Shoshone Project - Willwood Div. technical drawings 1912-1924 25 Shoshone Project - Wyo. - Heart Mountain Division - Irrigable Lands 1927 25 Shoshone Project - Wyo. - Heart Mountain Division - Key Map to Soil Testing Plats 1927 August 8 25 Shoshone Project - Wyo. - Heart Mountain Division - technical drawings 1938-1941 25 Shoshone Project - Wyo. - Heart Mountain Project - Metal Pipe Road Siphon 18" to 48" Diameters 1941 November 10 Shoshone River Siphon & Buck Springs Creek Siphon Heart Mountain Canal 1938 4 Specification for Construction at Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Cody, Wyoming undated 4 U.S. Engineer Department Construction Schedules Progress Report Forms & Progress Graphs - Heart Mountain Relocation Center 1940-1942 Series IV. Oversize drawings & maps 22 All-American Canal Project drawings 1936 23 Architectural drawing undated 22 Blue-South Platte Project data & maps 1937-1948 21 Cantilever Type Retaining Wall 1928 February 20 22 Design of Monolithic Concrete Siphon Barrels 1934 24 Elevation of Outlet Wall Main Canal Lateral Turnout 18" to 30" Gate (3) 1929 March 26 22 Metal Flume Standards (technical drawings) undated 24 Moment Table for 2 Locomotives followed by train of uniform load 1928 April 24 24 Standard bolts, nuts, springs, & screws 1926 April 8 24 University of Wyoming Agricultural Hall 1926 October 27 24 University of Wyoming Bosch High Tension Magneto 1926 21 University of Wyoming undergraduate work - Details of Tool Post 1926 May 29 21 University of Wyoming undergraduate work - graphic statistics 1928 March 21 University of Wyoming undergraduate work - Topography between Lewis & Flint Streets north of University 1927 March 18 21 University of Wyoming undergraduate work - trusses & arches 1928 19 University of Wyoming undergraduate work - various drawings 1929 20 University of Wyoming undergraduate work - various technical drawings 1928-1929